Henry tops cross country field to lead Ridge girls

BERNARDS TWP. - From a multicolored sea of 184 runners, Kathleen
Henry emerged as the number one runner in the junior division of
the Bernie Magee Memorial Cross Country Tournament last Sunday at
Warinanco Park in Elizabeth to lead the Ridge girls' team to a
first place overall finish.

Henry, who last year was ninth in the state Meet of Champions
and second in Somerset County, easily won the junior division with
a finish of 20:07.

While the Ridge juniors finished third from a field of 14 teams,
the overall girls' score was based on the top three seniors,
juniors and sophomores of each team. The Ridge girls won with 289
points from an overall field of more than 50 teams.

The senior girls also had a good day, taking second place with
35 points as Meghan Bohren (8th, 21:22), Callie Gates (13th,
21:53.4) and Katrina Roi (14th, 21:57) were the top three
finishers.

Kristina Rovtar was the only Ridge sophomore to crack the top 50
when she finished 49th at 25:10 to lead the sophomore class.

Renz Leads Boys

The senior boys were led by captain Bobby Renz (61th, 19:22) and
Jeff Hanft (62nd, 19:24.9), while Dave Guglielmo led the juniors
with a 17th place finish at 18:08.9.

"This meet had a unique scoring system where the best score
didn't indicate the best team," said coach Tim Mooney. "It was
broken up into classes and the overall team score was based on the
top three runners from the senior, junior and sophomore
classes.

"Our senior girls came in second to Montville, who we had beaten
at the Randolph Invitational last week. Their top runners were all
seniors while our best runner (Kathleen Henry) ran in the junior
race."

Ridge swept its first dual meet of the season on Tuesday, Sept.
16, at Pleasant Valley Park over Immaculata. The boys won, 18-45,
while the girls won by a 15-46 score.

Guglielmo was the boys' winner at 18:14, while Renz was second
overall at 18:36. Ridge also took places five of the next seven
positions as Hanft (4th, 18:45), Evan Mooney (5th, 18:56), Sean
Mooney (7th, 19:28), Marcus Bouchillon (8th, 19:30) and Dave
Henderson (9th, 19:32) led the way.

"I was very pleased with the boys' race," said coach Mooney,
"since we were able to get some quality work in with it. They ran
the third half mile hard as part of a workout."

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